Word: victorias
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...Juan is the third son of a family famed for its Bourbon nose and its unhappiness. Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, niece of Britain's Edward VII, carried hemophilia to two of her four sons, bore two daughters who by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves. Hemophile Don Alfonso, the eldest son, renounced his right to the crown when he married a wealthy but untitled Cuban, bled to death after an auto accident in Florida three years ago. Earlier, the youngest son, Don Gonzalo, also a bleeder, died after a minor car smash...
Cheers For Miss Bishop (United Artists) is Victoria Regina laid in a small Midwestern university, with a farm-bred schoolteacher replacing Queen Victoria, farm-bred Actress Martha Scott replacing Helen Hayes. Carefully chosen to build up Actress Scott, whose only previous pictures were Our Town (in which she played the same part she created on the stage) and last year's memorable The Howards of Virginia, Cheers For Miss Bishop sticks doggedly to its job, provides some heartwarming scenes without getting anywhere in particular...
Died. Sir John Lavery, 84, Irish portraitist of the impressionist period; in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny, Eire. He painted Queen Victoria in 1888, Shirley Temple in 1936, and between times did more U. S. millionaires than any other artist in history. Deeply devoted to the late, Chicago-born Lady Lavery, one of the beauties of her time, Sir John used her as model for the colleen on Eire's banknotes, hung a new portrait of her at the Royal Academy nearly every year. Observed he in his autobiography: "I doubt if there are a more heartless crew than poets, painters...
Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...
...Sculpture by Anna Sten (Nana) and Vincent Price (Victoria Regina...